Sociology Trial

Today is the the day of the last activity for our sociology class, which is the court trial. Our class was divided into two groups with a different case for each because of its size. Our group was the prosecution for the euthanasia or mercy killing case. The way the entire trial was conducted was actually very interesting. We had to make up our own evidences and present the whole case as if it had really happened. The end result is that there was a lot of fun in making the whole event seem real and acting the part we were each supposed to be. Admittedly this was one of the most interesting parts of the sociology class, and we the the most fun with it. The actual trial lasted a ridiculously long time- the first case started around 4 pm, and the last case ended after midnight. It was a tiring but interesting experience, and we all had time to take group photos later.

Our prosecution group

The entire class

Birthday party, tree planting

Today has been a relatively eventful day compared to the last few weeks, which feels to have been nothing but tests, averaging one test per week. So it's nice to have a change.

At exactly 12 am this morning, we celebrated one of my friends' birthday. It was more of a last minute arrangement, and we went out to buy the things just before midnight. Then after some.. arrangements, we managed to get her friends to bring her to the bridge/terrace overlooking the swimming pool, where our attempts at making it a surprise ended up with amusing attempts to cover it up. Everything went smoothly once it started running though. We spent over an hour there playing games and having fun. We ended and packed everything up at around 2 am. Anyway, happy birthday Mik Xin!

After a short sleep, I followed 2 other friends to Kota Damansara for the Canon Goes Green event. It's a volunteer event where any volunteers can join, and the main activity was tree planting. We were all supposed to plant a total of 2500 trees in the area around Padang Kota Damansara. 2500 sounded like a lot but there were several hundred volunteers present, resulting in a surprisingly fast conclusion to the tree-planting. With all the volunteers divided into 14 groups, and each group tasked with planting one species of tree, the whole tree-planting part only took about 40 minutes. Besides tree-planting, Canon also had organized many other things, including some singer to perform at the main tent. Canon really went all out at this event.

The main tent

The resting tent

Homemade instrument orchestra